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Wear your art on your sleeve

Contemporary artist Chavah Kinloch is set to be one of eight featured artists for the upcoming art show to be held in Auckland in February and has had her art transformed by a US boutique into bangles...

December book club

I pretty much got kicked out of my book club. I'm not particularly proud of that fact, I really liked the idea of belonging to a book club. It all started out so well, says Anya, as she reviews top holiday reads for this summer...

Hot off the boil

Sometimes you have to be brave, and work out what you truly love, what makes you happy. Gary Willis and Sue Haldane from industrial design brand The Boiler Room so obviously get to do what they love...

Looking up @ Ruby

Paint Your Heart Out is a collaboration between Ruby Boutique and three NZ artists: Henrietta Harris, Shayna Quinn & Kelly Thompson. Throughout New Zealand, each artist will be showcased in Ruby stores...

Artist in Residence in Rotorua

Imagine being an artist and given 8 weeks free accomodation and payment to just be creative in your given field in Rotorua next April? Well, for one artist, this will become a reality, with Arts Residencies Rotorua...

TheNewDowse hanging by a thread

In conjunction with the Hanging by a Thread conference TheNewDowse presents an exhibition by Andrea du Chatenier on the theatrics of fashion photography and modelling to construct vignettes of disaster...

Wellington artist Ange Lee

Thread attended an opening exhibition of talented Wellington artist Ange Lee at Pixel Ink in Wellington, to see the palette of blues from this eco, vegan, organic savvy artist who says she is "influenced by my interest in Eastern philosophy, universal symbols and physics”...

Playing ladies

Wellington artist Anmea Hoskin has developed a collection of works she describes as capturing the “sweetness of the era.” Based on a celebration of the domestic goddess from the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s Hoskin’s work features domestic doe-eyed, apron-wearing housewives, through to party girls playing musical chairs in their best dresses...